Day 468-ish
I’m uncertain what day of the war it is. If we multiply 9 (years) by 365, not counting the leap years, that means, er, Day 3,285-ish, the first Tuesday in June when Russia blew up the hydroelectric dam in Nova Khakhovka.
I stumbled across this shrine on Pushkin Street yesterday. Obvi someone’s trolling The Washington Post for failing the Palyanytsia Test1.
Monuments and scooter gangs.
Tom at The New York Times takes us on a deep dive into Ukraine’s shoulder patch world2. The article does not mention the Nazi flower arrangement on Druzhba Narodov Boulevard. Minus 5 (five) points.
It goes without saying that one of the things we all should not consider before joining a military fighting unit are the patches they wear on their sleeves, neck tattoos, et cetera. This geek crap might be interesting for Americans who are learning to love Ukrainian ethnogenetic eccentricities, but it doesn’t resonate with the locals3.
My favorite military patch:
Video of the Day is Faithless by Mass Destruction